Is the most northern part of Iceland still there?

[@TomScottGo]

There are a lot of people to thank for helping this video come together; pull down the description to see them all!

[@MeloTheRogue]

yessir

[@HORlZON250]

Hey hows it going?

[@droko9]

Something tells me the wiki page for Kolbeinsey is going to be updated very shortly

[@mebamme]

wait, how did you manage to post this as far back as 27 seconds ago? are you a time wizard or something?

[@randomz5890]

I am simultaneously surprised and not surprised that you chartered a plane

[@ThcPatient]

I'm just imagining Tom chartering that plane: "Where do you want to go?" "A rock in the middle of the ocean." "Okay, and for what purpose?" "To see if it's there."

[@trippydrew8492]

"Why's that?" "Because Wikipedia said it might not be."

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

The guy probably muttered under his breath "fourth time so far this year".

[@Filipnalepa]

"Understandable, have a nice flight"

[@ZT1ST]

"You're good for the cash?"*

[@Dolthra]

"You know you still have to pay us even if we don't find it, right? I've been burned before."

[@joeym5243]

Shortly after the camera cuts, Tom adorns himself with his RAF uniform and opens the bay doors to release a payload onto the island, once and for all ending Iceland's hopes and dreams of winning the Cod War

[@elijahdage5523]

You know this means Iceland has to retaliate and send one of their KZbinrs to destroy Great Brittain.

[@BlitzerXYZ]

Iceland will just threaten to leave NATO and again the U.S will allow Iceland to grow.

[@christopherlee-hudson3283]

@@elijahdage5523 Are there any Icelandic KZbinrs?

[@sneakyinlane3773]

@Sassy The Sasquatch Thats like a third of iceland population

[@robertbutcher222]

Sassy The Sasquatch who are they?

[@TheJhtlag]

Update: Wiki reference is still there: " In August 2020, English KZbinr Tom Scott published a video confirming the continued existence of the island, with two skerries still visible at low tide.[13][14] In April 2021, the Icelandic Coast Guard visited the island and measured it as 20 meters wide from west to east and 14.5 meters long from north to south" Looks like he goaded Iceland into making their own confirmation visit ;^)

[@BoyProdigyX]

This update is awesome! Thx!

[@louisgordon4388]

Tom is also credited for the photo on the Wikipedia page

[@christiansborledegg]

that's so nice 😭😭

[@zyaicob]

"SO I CHARTERED A PLANE" i was expecting this to be a story about managing expectations and how not everything makes a great story because not everything is feasible to confirm but this is way better

[@conanichigawa]

I was surprised too. But why am I surprise, this is Tom Scott.

[@revsnowfox5798]

Everything makes a great story if it's Tom Scott.

[@jmhastings0]

Reminds me of Nick Robinson's "so I booked a flight to Japan"

[@zyaicob]

@@jmhastings0 and CGP Grey flying to New York and then going to Staten Island

[@trainmaster997]

@@jmhastings0 wasn’t that the guy who was fired from polygon for sexual assault

[@silvereaglexi3888]

Tom Scott using his KZbin channel as a cover for a top secret recon mission ordered by the Queen herself.

[@talalon4098]

😂😂😂😂 Exactly.... You exposed her majesty's servant- Tom Scott......😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@amandawilcox9638]

Darcelle XV?

[@anchovybushwack472]

This _must_ be a more widespread headcanon tbh

[@jongyon7192p]

as an agent for the SCP Foundation

[@McCarthyMomEater]

Lmao

[@codnewbgamer]

2009 Tom Scott: So we threw drums off a cliff; 2020 Tom Scott: So I chartered a plane in the Arctic Circle

[@Monosekist]

2030 Tom Scott: So I downloaded someone else's mental state for a day.

[@sk8rdman]

ba-dum-ch

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

@@Monosekist don't you dare reminding me of *that* video anymore

[@tristanmitchell1242]

@@Monosekist I have been playing CB2077 recently, and this hits a little close to home on that.

[@asheep7797]

@@aloysiuskurnia7643 well cum to life.

[@haydenweir6416]

“So I chartered a plane” is the most Tom Scott moment I’ve ever seen

[@KubikDezimeter]

Also reminds me of Mark Rober's last video about sharks and of CGP Grey who flew to the statue of liberty museum for one of his videos

[@Carewolf]

To me it sounded quintisential Icelandic.

[@mylesfrost335]

@@KubikDezimeter close it was actually inspired by standup maths as mentioned in the description

[@commenterjosh2428]

HOW RICH ARE YOU, TOM?!

[@edwardnygma8533]

Made me think of Nick Robinson tbh.

[@OkamioftheRinnegan]

The sister series to Things You Might Not Know: Places That Might Not Exist

[@officialboomtish214]

Nobody upvote it. Please

@@officialboomtish214 Why not?

[@Seraphim737-l1i]

@@officialboomtish214 shut hecc

[@cheese_wafflez533]

Nearly spat out my chocolate milk

[@jamesmatthews291]

Including the cliff that refuses to be a cliff? 😉

[@lindybeige]

I thought that in order to be counted as an island, a piece of land had to be above the sea level all the time, and so a piece of land that is submerged at high tide would not count.

[@blegh9585]

Hey Lindybeige big fan here

[@TheIndogamer]

Iceland and the two rocks of Okinotorishima: "Tell that to Japan!"

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

Agreed. I don't see the difference between this and a bit of rock off any beach

[@Pangloss6413]

i guess this is a crossover episode

[@sys_tem_]

@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer I think the difference is that it's really far from the shore? I'm really unsure. But I do agree it's such a puny rock collection!!

[@GeoQuag]

Tom casually visiting places that might not even exist

[@kwasichan722]

Michael shelley

[@batlrar]

Good thing it wasn't Brigadoon, or we might not have had another video for a looooong time!

[@SuperSmashDolls]

Given that this story was inspired by the guy who wrote the Antimemetics Division stories I wouldn't be surprised if I wind up forgetting about this island in... oh... uh... er, wait, what was I talking about?

[@bdf2718]

I always thought Grimsby was an uninviting place. Now I've seen it, I'm sure. They can't even spell their own name right.

[@Platitudinous9000]

Places You Might Not Have

[@Dave-hn5tl]

The wikipedia article now says that it "was expected to disappear in the near future, probably around the year 2020, based upon rates of erosion data from 1994. Although, as of August 2020, a small part still remains visible during low tide." This video is listed as one of the sources. Edit: A week and a day later, the article now says "Erosion rate data from 1994 suggested that this would happen around 2020. However, as of August 2020, two small sections of the island remain visible during low tide." and "In August 2020, KZbinr Tom Scott uploaded a video which confirmed the continued-albeit further eroded-existence of the island at low tide."

[@MagnusSkiptonLLC]

And the leading picture (as of me writing this) is a still from the video.

[@marsovac]

Tom writing history :)

[@SumNutOnU2b]

Alright, so which one of you lot just went and added that to Wikipedia just now?

[@infinitenex8165]

@@SumNutOnU2b Maybe Tom did it himself

[@hellelujahh]

@@infinitenex8165 Are we on the brink of finding his Wikipedia account, along with its edit history?

[@sk8rdman]

Tom Scott: "I couldn't risk being wrong on the internet, so I waited until 2020 and chartered a plane to prove whether a rock exists."

[@Woopady115]

I’m 3m 51s into this video and I’m stressed. Why am I so invested in whether a rock north of Iceland is still there? 4 minutes ago I didn’t even know it ever existed.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Did it give you a sleepless night?

[@redfailhawk]

TheCimbrianBull it’s 2am and now I’m on Wikipedia so yes

[@TheCimbrianBull]

@@redfailhawk You're welcome! 😀

[@AhsimNreiziev]

+[Woopady115] That's the Tom Scott magic, baby!

[@Werrf1]

I accidentally ruined the suspense for myself by going to the Wikipedia page for the island to verify what Tom said about it, and reading that "As of August 2020, two small sections of the island remain visible during low tide.[4]" with the citation "Scott, Tom (August 17, 2020). Is The Most Northern Part Of Iceland Still There?"

[@voyager9957]

"Is there really ice on mars? To see if it's there, you would need to rent a rocket... So I rented rocket!" - Tom Scott, 2045

[@rixtedewolff8966]

@@sci_pain3409 How does a dyson sphere help you find aliens?

[@pgre]

how do you rent a rocket?

[@voyager9957]

@@pgre Well, you can not exactly rent one, but you can buy space in a rocket. That's how the cubesats work. I just said "rent" for simplicity

[@autohmae]

@@voyager9957 "you can not exactly rent one" My guess: not yet.

[@dubious_potat4587]

"Yo Elon can I borrow that very fine rocket of yours? I promise I'll return it"

[@Metawen]

"In August 2020, English KZbinr Tom Scott published a video confirming the continued existence of the island, with two skerries still visible at low tide.[13][14] In April 2021, the Icelandic Coast Guard visited the island and measured it as 20 meters wide from west to east and 14.5 meters long from north to south.[4][5]"

[@ovni2295]

Huzzah!

[@sufferationist]

It probably would have disappeared by this year, but the ocean's efficiency was adversely effected by work-at-home requirements.

[@bhatkrishnakishor]

Brilliant comment on various levels. 😁

[@huntzkush]

@@bhatkrishnakishor Can you explain these levels?

[@alveolate]

*affected

[@miffedmeff7302]

@@huntzkush 2 layers only, really. One I presume is the witty reference to our current predicament and personifying the ocean to be affected similarily but a possibly more subtle interpretation could be how climate change is effectively halted by stay-at-home policies, thus stopping the ocean's rise (even though I'm sure that erosion still occurs, but I'm not a geologist)

[@huntzkush]

@@miffedmeff7302 word

[@joen0411]

I suspect if the island wasn’t there, the Icelandic pilots would have thrown him out the plane in order to protect their country’s fishing rights.

[@obsessivelyoli]

underrated comment

[@sirBrouwer]

they are Icelandic not the old Argentina government.

[@MsHjalli]

😂

[@Michaelonyoutub]

now I'm imagining the astronaut meme with Tom going "the island isn't there" and the icelandic pilots going "it never was" before shooting him and dumping his body

[@LaNiBlackLight]

@@Michaelonyoutub omg so good. Make it.

[@theskilllessgamer5795]

Small update: last time someone checked and published if teh ridge was still there was in April 2021. Thats two years ago, time for someone to check and tell, again. Also this video made it to the German wikipedia about Kolbeinsey as a source that officially documents its lasts years. Gratz Tom, you made history. :)

[@Spankypenguin1]

Me: I don't care about an uninhabitable bit of rock north of Iceland Tom: Starts talking about an uninhabitable bit of rock north of Iceland Me: Get out there Tom, I gotta know if it's still there!

[@taylormurphy2551]

^This, absolutely!

[@safe-keeper1042]

Tom can make anything interesting.

[@FreshGirl3000]

I really didn't wanna watch the video bc it sounded so random and barely interesting but after less than 1 minute I was already completely intriged lmao.

[@simontay4851]

Well it is inhabited by sea birds.

[@F-Lambda]

@@simontay4851 *A lot* of sea birds, by the looks of it.

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

Plot twist: Iceland paid Tom to film several videos about that rock some years ago and told him to publish them gradually in 2020, 2022 and so on, while the island has secretly already disappeared.

[@ripster7]

That's why there's no masks being warn on the plane 🤔

[@arirostur7046]

RIPSTER we were actually more worried about swimming pools not being open for a while, until theey opened.

[@DueySR]

If this was true Tom predicted the pandemic.

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

@@DueySR What? Why?

[@CRT.v]

@@rubenlarochelle1881 He's wearing a face mask at 1:46

[@gravitysilence]

Never did I ever imagine that I'd hear Tom Scott mention the SCP wiki, even if only indirectly when talking about someone who had inspired a video. Hearing the acronym title of one of my favourite internet community projects spoken by one of my favourite KZbinrs is a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@woooooooooooooooooooooooo]

:D

[@ethribin4188]

Where is he mentioning it?

[@drizzle8309]

@@ethribin4188 4:38 When he talks about Sam Hughes, who inspired the video through some tweets.

[@walterw8223]

News reporter: _"-The negotiation between governments were settled by a rando in a plane. Roll the clip...."_ 3:21

[@loscni]

Just for the sake of being "that guy" The person who sits at the desk during a newscast is the News Anchor and Tom would be the Reporter.

[@drawde_064]

Then cut back to the studio at 3:23

[@alisonhell84]

"Ah yes, the negotiator!"

[@luciachlys5041]

BEST. COMMENT. EVER

[@DavidLinn]

@@drawde_064 i watched it to the timestamp wondering why those two seconds were so important. i started laughing XD. news anchor: "we now have confirmation of the existence of the island by a highly qualified and experienced geological surveyor" 3:21 - 3:23

[@Thrano]

Audience: Can we see the island? Tom: You'd have to charter a plane. Audience: Aww :( Tom: So I chartered a plane! Audience: Yay :D

[@JimPlaysGames]

Tom you magnificient bastard.

[@PKMartin]

Tom: you'd have to charter a plane. Me: you chartered a plane didn't y- Tom: so I chartered a plane! Me: called it

[@qwertyTRiG]

This is very much a Half as Interesting subject done in the Tom Scott style.

[@Serthys1]

Reminds me of CGP Grey's The Race to Win Staten Island.

[@marquizzo]

Haha! That part cracked me up. I was disappointed I wasn't going to see something I didn't even know existed a few seconds before.

[@willierants5880]

Two years later and we have to know. Is it still there? Damn it Tom, I didn't know about these lumps of volcanic rock and now I'm going to obsess about them.

[@thestral1676]

From wikipediea "In April 2021, the Icelandic Coast Guard visited the island and measured it as 20 meters wide from west to east and 14.5 meters long from north to south."

[@safcjcp]

@@thestral1676 that’s what they want you to think

[@thestral1676]

@@safcjcp I'm British so no it's not

[@celinayishan1959]

“You would need a plane, so I chartered one” Wow Tom puts so much effort into his videos!!

[@anyGould]

That smash cut at 1:47 made me laugh out loud by how hard it pivoted from "oh, my story didn't work out" to "here's the new story". Very nicely done, Tom!

[@1schwererziehbar1]

Maybe the Queen paid for it.

[@KaelusVonSestiaf]

I can't stop giggling like mad at the "You'd have to charter a plane..." joke and the sequence of cuts that followed it. Comedy genius.

[@magnum0121984]

I hope Tom makes enough off this video to cover the charter.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I don't think anyone could pull that off as well as Tom.

[@ClashixTV]

me and every other brit: riiiiiiiiight xD

[@TheMrSark]

love this

[@RockGeek00]

Oh hey its a wild Sark, fancy meeting you here. Did you also come to partake of random historical tibits?

[@joeym5243]

Do you get notifications for comment replies?

[@stalbourne]

I would never have expected Sark to comment on a Tom Scott video

[@TheHDTheater]

Of course I'd find Sark here, of course.

[@the_sad_wallet1553]

Iceland is soon gonna get a new score on the “how northern are you?” quiz if that island keeps eroding

[@elijahdage5523]

Why are you sad?

[@tortex1]

@@elijahdage5523 Cause he's a bit empty, you can't see a bulge.

[@nitehawk86]

@@elijahdage5523 Because the park bench ended.

[@arirostur7046]

As a native Icelandic person, i think i can say for all of us “ooh, that’s my country”

[@namewarvergeben]

And with all Icelandic people who appear in this video: "Hey, I know that guy!"

[@eliasviisson1273]

I was like that

[@eliasviisson1273]

*yes im from iceland*

[@siggitiggi]

Yarp

[@happysheep6097]

Ice gang 🧊😎✨💕

[@tsg_frank5829]

The fact that Tom was able to chart a plane to actually see the island with his own eyes is amazing. Amazing, is also, how he's now featured on the actual wikipedia article with sources to this video

[@Vok250]

"Constantly eroding away. Probably won't survive 2020." Ah yes. Just like my hopes and dreams.

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Much like the island, still there is hope!

[@thomasneal9291]

my dreams only expose themselves at low tide. and smell of rotting seaweed and dead fish.

[@Rogther]

@@clockworkkirlia7475 But only for a short amount of time

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

@@Rogther See that's where it sort of falls apart, because I think things will get a lot MORE hopeful after 2020. We'll all have to take a good long look at the world we've made, for starters, and there's nothing for hope like hard work towards a better future.

[@jimtamim1708]

Typical 2020 things to do

[@zolacnomiko]

Tom's comedic delivery in "you'd have to charter a *plane.* ..SO I CHARTERED A PLANE" is *chef's kiss*

[@dr.firefetus5119]

I feel like tom is the god of one take video's

[@randomz5890]

Either that or his editor is God and makes it look like it's just one take

[@thatssofetch3481]

This isn’t one take

[@tmgamer514]

Dr. Fire Fetus forgot about lindybeige

[@geoffnet1]

*I feel like Tom is the god of one-take videos.

[@gibbonbasher8171]

Well... except for the fact this video isn’t one take

[@derkach7907]

This video was totally not sponsored by the "British cod fishing corporation"

[@grandmastarflash]

Next years sponsored visit: it's gone!! Its bloody gone!! Fire up the trawlers lads!!!!! 😂😂

[@jayleclerc1759]

Here to compare his voice to matt colbo’s... impressive.

[@route2070]

And just like that a tradition starts. Tom now will check once a year..... I hope or I'm just talking nonsense.

[@StaK_1980]

Oh boy, you started something now! :-)

[@BabyGirl-mh1tz]

Everyone mark the date in your calendars/diaries. In a year we’re asking 😂

[@treyslider6954]

Someone hasn't seen Tom's "This video has [x] views" video. He's got better things to do with his time than check up on old videos; he's got new videos to make.

[@fridtjofriibe5961]

Well, it’s probably gone by then, so a fairly short series..

[@bayu_bejo]

Remember the Goat from Sweden? By the time Tom got back, the island disappeared.

[@Jabrils]

You were in Akureyri, I love that cozy little town. 🤗

[@SpeedySpee]

ey its jabrils

[@arycogito]

yo it's you. the guy who can talk without moving your mouth. Nice.

[@johannjohannsson8255]

Ayy i live there

[@cormalan9894]

@@johannjohannsson8255 I like your name haha. Swede here hoping to go to Iceland at some point. Even though your mainland doesn’t enter the Arctic circle :)

[@johannjohannsson8255]

@@cormalan9894 thanks dude

[@pascalzurek]

I just love that hanger dangling around in the background of the airplane. Distracts me in the most Tom Scottish fashion imaginable.

[@tuurehu3392]

Someone edited the wikipedia article to say "Although, as of August 2020, a small part still remains visible during low tide."

[@Mrunibro]

[citation needed]

[@warbler1984]

@@Mrunibro this video is the citation

[@twothreebravo]

@@Mrunibro Hey! I understood that reference

[@OneFatStatue]

@@warbler1984 Mind your head... Woossssh!

[@JochCool]

"Someone"? There have been 71 edits since the video was uploaded.

[@retroforager]

"you'd have to charter a plane." "so.. i chartered a plane." god i love this man's dedication

[@TheOfficialCzex]

"So I chartered a plane!" You don't know how big the grin on my face is.

[@NekogamiKun127]

*Icelandic Official:* And what is the purpose of your visit, sir? *Tom:* I'm doing a KZbin video on how Kolbeinsey has eroded, thus opening up discussions of international fishing rights. *Icelandic Official, sliding over a stack of Krona:* Oh really?

[@arirostur7046]

GentlemanPenguin Icelandic króna to be excact

[@nullvoid564]

@@arirostur7046 Why Catch Corona when you can spend it on masks?

[@Gillsing]

Cod wars? I thought Call of Duty was always about war?

[@nullvoid564]

@@Gillsing Are you shore you don't mean Cod of Duty: Annette Warfare

[@antonmagnusson9202]

@@landkonnudur Minn maður bara með þetta!

[@guiorgy]

"There's no way for tourists to see" me: Well, guess we will just... "SO I WENT THERE ANYWAYS!" me: ... Of course you did...

[@nathanaelraynard2641]

Well did you expect less from him

[@guiorgy]

@@nathanaelraynard2641 I don't know what I was expecting...

[@rookiewrenching938]

I came down here to make a comment about "so I chartered a plane", but looks like we're covered there.

[@quahntasy]

*"You'll have to charter a plane. So I chartered a plane"* Tom is best documentary on KZbin.

[@BlackOps2543x]

"He's also responsible for the Antimemetics Division over on the SCP Foundation's Wiki" Didn't expect SCP to come up in a video about a tiny little rock

[@mcfixer9503]

Kolbeinsey is an SCP

[@clayel1]

It was a good division tho 0-0

[@Meanslicer43]

Yah. Definitley unexpected for me as well

[@AnAverageItalian]

Exactly, I even left a comment about it before reading yours

[@NoNameAtAll2]

who's "he"?

[@xetworks1]

It's cool how you can do things like this, I also like how you get straight to the Point no annoying adverts in the Video and no explaining for 20 minutes. Thank you, I enjoy watching your videos.

[@xetworks1]

And I wonder to see what it looks like today.

[@dross6206]

Never thought I would be on edge while waiting to find out if a rock that I’ve never heard of still exists

[@TheJttv]

"So I chartered a plane"

[@davinator_peepo2102]

Some rando chartered a plane to point out the island isn't there anymore.

[@r5LgxTbQ]

so I booked a flight to Japan...

[@lizardlegend42]

@@r5LgxTbQ A Nick Ribinson reference I presume?

[@Oxideacid]

Tom Scott chartering a plane to see a rock in the middle of the ocean is the most Tom Scott thing ever.

[@colin8286]

Tom the kind of guy to charter a plane to see if a rock is still there.

[@nighthawk043]

Going to Kolbeinsey's wikipedia article in 2022, I love that the picture of it says: Tom Scott, 2020. I wonder if he's the last person to bother to photograph it and publish the photo.

[@tehlaser]

"On the SCP wiki" Oh great. These eroding rocks are the only thing holding back an EK-class memetic erasure scenario, aren't they?

[@tehlaser]

Creamy Pasta: I mean, it's hard. Last time that sphere was in the wrong place on the night of the midnight sun they managed to work around the damaged helipad to get things under control before much of anything beyond the Iceland/Greenland mixup went truly viral.

[@thevortexcrafter7060]

Didn't you hear him? He's the Antimemetics Division author. These eroding rocks are the only place where the EK-class memetic erasure scenario hasn't happened yet.

[@georgewl]

@@tobybartels8426 you should read them. They're great. Meme: information or phenomena which spreads like a virus. Antimeme: information which no matter how you record it, disappears. Photos overexpose, writing turns into indecipherable gibberish, audio/video recordings become corrupted. And some of these antimemes are sapient. Some are malicious.

[@vsolyomi]

Tom should sell T-Shirts with quotes of his. "So I charted a plane!" I'd buy.

[@normanboyd3418]

But PLEASE Tom if you do... "chartered"😉

[@gerdacoonan7250]

@@normanboyd3418 That's very funny !!!!, cheers.

[@roundel52]

Any colour, as long as it's red

[@The.Norwegian]

I love all the work you put into these videos. You obviously don't mind spending several days traveling far away from home for a 5 minute video. i truly appreciate the amazing content you're putting out!

[@keiyakins]

"I'd recommend his books ..." I've never heard of those. "He's also responsible for the Antimemetics Division stories over on the SCP Wiki." But hoo boy now I plan to check them out!

[@tobybartels8426]

My reaction exactly!

[@SurnameName]

they're available for free on his website

[@AnAverageItalian]

@@SurnameName nice! Gonna check 'em out

[@skshms.1975]

@@SurnameName sauce?

[@pineappleudh6561]

@@skshms.1975 Mayonnaise

[@antemajetic2394]

Hearing SCP mentioned in a Tom Scott video is something I have not expected, but I guess SCP is reasonably popular these days.

[@baijokull]

*Update* The island has just been measured again by the Icelandic Coast Guard. It is now only 20 meters long and 14,5 meters wide. But it's still there! :D

[@StarshadowMelody]

Presently I want to know when it disappears. By the time I wake up tomorrow, I will have forgotten all about disappearing fishing rights rock.

[@oxybrightdark8765]

@@StarshadowMelody do you think it still exists?

[@BigCroca]

Wonder why they don’t do some land reclamation stuff to build it back up, make a tough sea wall around it and dump a bubch of soil on it

[@oxybrightdark8765]

@@BigCroca they gotta lug all that dirt there. Why bother?

[@kurtsnyder4752]

Looks like the Crab Monsters have had at it.

[@frankyboy4409]

No time at all later: someone already put stills on Wikipedia with "the island in August 2020" (with full copyright to Tom of course) :D That's what's so great on open knowledge.

[@Insert.Oregano]

@Captain Insano Shows no mercy nowadays, I've heard Wikipedia has a lot of active admins, that make it very hard to spread false information

[@verde7595]

@@Insert.Oregano It's more accurate than most encyclopedias.

[@frankyboy4409]

@Captain Insano Shows no mercy which can be verified considering we are talking open data. in contrast to having to trust someone who might not even reveal their sources.

[@vysa518]

This is the best channel I’ve ever came across

[@Ashley-jp4nn]

If you want more Tom Scott check out “Citation Needed” from The Technical Difficulties. Didn’t know that channel existed until recently and it’s hilarious 😁

[@Zwodo]

I swear you have the most random, most interesting content. Every time I see an intriguing video that's completely unrelated to anything I'm watching, it's you.

[@James__123]

"so I chartered a plane" amazing

[@elementalsheep2672]

The Wikipedia article now reads: “A basalt landform, devoid of vegetation, it is subject to rapid wave erosion and is expected to disappear in the near future, probably around the year NOT 2020.”

[@JamesJordanson]

give or take a century ;)

[@joaovitormatos8147]

It's still around 2020, the way this year is going, I would check again by December

[@106640guy]

@@joaovitormatos8147 At least it's got 0 confirmed covid cases

[@zsin128]

i edited it, and added Tom as reference

[@GibusWearingMann]

That edit was reverted, and now it reads "...is expected to disappear in the near future, probably around the year 2020, based upon current[when?] rates of erosion. It's still there in 2020, proven by Tom Scott (entertainer)"

[@simoncockcroft6937]

Tom's dedication to detail is fantastic

[@seancooper4058]

Never thought I'd hear Tom Scott say "SCP wiki" in a video

[@TimeTravelinc]

Btw, I’m a little surprised that you mentioned qntm’s work of Anti-Memetic’s Division of the SCP Foundation. Came for the SCP Mention, Stayed for the unexpected mention of a tiny island. Hope to see more Tom, including playing a thought experiment of SCP Foundation Anomalies IRL and how the countries would handle it. Can’t wait to see more.

[@actuallyasriel]

But the mention was right at the end?? The tiny island is the thrust of the video?? ....Unless it got posted somewhere by the SCP folks?

[@manjunegi9295]

Thanx Tom for being here all these years.

[@nqkhanhskewb]

"You'd have to charter a plane... So I chartered a plane"

[@littlelawson06]

Khánh Nông Quốc that KZbin money must be good...

[@violeteclipse3912]

True Tom Scott style

[@haroldsen4238]

„You‘d have to die... so I died“

[@dee74raz]

I wonder how much it cost to charter it? 🧐

[@Kai-K]

The antimeme arc on the SCP wiki is one of the best, really excited to (and surprised that I didn't) know qntm has books I can read.

[@gaiusred]

I'm sorry, but did Tom just plugged Ra, SCP and the Anti-memetics Division at the very end there? Cool :)

[@mrnice4434]

I still hope for a SCP Netflix (or Amazon or what evener) series ... there is definitely potential :)

[@nieznajomyczowiek574]

this is the last place i would expect SCP to be mentioned

[@scptime1188]

@@nieznajomyczowiek574 Same. Wait-

[@Eira_]

@@mrnice4434 There won't ever be a Netflix or Amazon SCP series because they can't make money off of it, but there is a fan-made SCP series called Confinement if you're interested in that sort of thing

[@mrnice4434]

@@Eira_ Oh Nice thanks for the tip :)

[@ValueNetwork]

Alternate title: KZbinr starts another cod war

[@bugsygoo]

J Webster Alternative.

[@Varasalvi2]

It honestly doesn't look like that island has much of any influence over the current fishing rights. When Iceland won the cod war is basically won the right to ignore the standard rules of fishing area being determined by range from land. I could be wrong, but i looked up the current fishing range and it doesn't seem to be following the standard rules.

[@matthiashrafnkelsson2180]

@@Varasalvi2 the exclusive economic zone of Iceland is 200 nautical miles and therefore follows the UNCLOS treaty.

[@diro999]

I love the ammount of effort that has gone into a 5 minute video, on site filming and hiring a plane all for 5 minutes of no waffle information about something random and small in the world. I love it.

[@anmoldureja4247]

I'm gonna jump into my Microsoft Flight simulator and start visiting every single amazing places video location 😍

[@obeserobloxian9857]

Same bud, got it pre ordered yesterday, cant wait.

[@ConnersRetroOmnibus]

These are the important stories we need in these trying times. Cheers Tom!

[@etienneporras7252]

qntm is by far one of my favourite authors on the SCP Wiki. His work is masterfully written and he has such a way of presenting truly mind-bending concepts in comfortable ways.

[@CthulhusDream]

Tom visiting a mysterious sinking island whose information was forwarded to him by an SCP author. What could go wrong?

[@gacelperfinian]

@@Samantha-so8tx Even if there is no change in sea levels, the bed where Kolbeinsey is situated also does sink. It is of course slower than erosion, but it is not slow enough that Kolbeinsey will sink anyway around 2150.

[@Hoch134]

@@gacelperfinian Way sooner. Greenlands ice will eventually melt which would rise the sea level by up to seven meters by the next century. I expect the sea levels to rise around a meter by 2050 even with the best efforts against the climate change.

[@DANNYonPC]

Dude casually charters a plane in order to see if a rock still exists

[@rvre]

As an Icelander, this was quite funny and interesting to see. Thanks for the awesome content, Tom

[@Ompasikom]

There's a little bird that sharpens its beak on that island; when the island has been whetted off, that means an eternity has passed :-D

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

One hell of a bird!

[@arandomdaciasandero925]

Heaven Sent

[@tetenric]

Did you say the guy that made the antimemetics SCP division? You certainly got my attention there, those are great reads, I'll surely check out his other works!

[@TheStartledNinja]

Would love to see a part 2 on this when the island is gone!

[@kezkai]

"so I chartered a plane!" actually audibly laughed, god you're good Tom

[@newworld435]

★★★★★

[@humphrey]

This is amazing Tom, thank you so much

[@pricechadwick]

I'm going to need an update on this. Planning a fishing trip.

[@jemjag3824]

Toms voice is so relaxing

[@silvertube11]

Everyone: talks about Tom chartering a plane Me: wondering why is there a clothes hanger in the back of the plane

[@Dan-vb7lz]

To hang clothes

[@Alexrider02]

To hang your jacket if it's wet so it doesn't get the seat wet? And so you don't have to sit in a wet jacket the whole flight?

[@JamesJordanson]

for the times the pilot rents out for skydiving ;)

[@mrwalk6171]

Emergencies

[@darcygardner415]

Emergency clothes

[@light487]

Love this type of exploring. Do more of this type of discovery.

[@idontwanttopickone]

"Iceland, your island is still there. You're welcome." - Tom Scott, 2020

[@matthewmccowan1552]

Now that would be a good phrase on a merch t-shirt.

[@psychoedge]

"... you'd have to charter a plane" - cut - "So I've chartered a plane!" You made me laugh with that more than I'd like to admit

[@Randombrudddaaa]

Since you went through all the kerfuffle of chartering a plane, have a few views. Fr though your dedication to your channel and the content you make is amazing

[@empath69]

Tom: "The trouble is, there's no way for a tourist to get out to Kolbeinsey. It's just a tiny bit of rock. To see if it's still there you'd have to charter a plane." Me: "Wait...you didn't-" Tom: *over sound of aircraft going brrrr* "SO I CHARTERED A PLANE!" Me: "You magnificent bastard, you."

[@artifex2.080]

Tom is the biggest chad

[@tanmaydeshpande]

1k likes and only 2 replies? What a travesty

[@amandawilcox9638]

@@tanmaydeshpande We're too busy being amazed and confused!

[@KonkeyDongkey]

So I booked a flight to Japan

[@kkmac7247]

@@KonkeyDongkey nick Robinson?

[@Opus313]

"Hey, your island isn't there anymore!" Tom confirms that it actually is still there... for now.

[@elijahdage5523]

I have a chisel, does anyone have a boat?

[@mrnice4434]

English fisherman hat this rock ;P

[@SnakeEyesOfficial42]

Elijah Dage even better: C4

[@legowagfles7287]

Yes, thank you for recapping the vid we’ve all seen

[@lukeernst2101]

I see the wikipedia article is changed to saying it'll erode 'in the near future'. And now Tom's tweet is the main photo for it!

[@twojuiceman]

Not only has the wikipedia article been updated, but it actually mentions Tom Scott and this video

[@kastro4460]

When I read "Is the most northern part of Iceland still there?" I thought "What kind of SCP stuff is this", only for you to mention SCP at the end. What are the odds

[@joelspaulding5964]

I watched with anticipation the entire video. Great material!

[@maximusmidnight2591]

3:21 "Hey, your island isn't there anymore!" That made me laugh after a rough day, thank you Tom

[@biepboep4471]

im just refreshing the page on that timestamp every 10 seconds now because its so great

[@ThomasPerkov]

Tom Scott could be the last person to ever see the most northern part of Iceland.

[@timothybarney7257]

Not counting the air crew of the chartered plane that got him there of course!

[@OryxTheMadGod3]

Well technically we can just watch the video to see it again

[@casparvoncampenhausen5249]

@@OryxTheMadGod3 and the technically I'm the queen of England

[@sepgorut2492]

I knew before clicking on this video that the answer had to be unequivocably "YES"